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Red Piano Records To Release "Cosmopolitan Greetings" From Frank Carlberg/Joe Morris/Pascal Niggenkemper/Luther Gray

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
October 11, 2015

Available October 16, 2015 Brooklyn-based Red Piano Records is proud to announce the release of Cosmopolitan Greetings, a collective effort by four veterans of the improvised music scene. This album marks the recorded debut of this quartet, with a line up featuring guitar legend Joe Morris, pianist/composer Frank Carlberg, bass wizard Pascal Niggenkemper and unsung drum master Luther Gray, in a program of three Carlberg compositions, and three collective improvisations. In the liner notes Carlberg describes the genesis of Cosmopolitan ...
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Beat Kaestli & Clarice Assad - A Cosmopolitan Affair - June 25th @ The Metropolitan Room NYC, 9:30pm

Source: Beat Kaestli
June 8, 2012

Joined by their mutual love of music and languages, longtime friends and collaborators Beat Kaestli and Clarice Assad use their cultural differences to present a cosmopolitan affair of international standards in a humorous yet sophisticated setting. Blending styles, reaching from Bossa Nova and Jazz to French Chansons and Opera, their diverse program takes you from Rio de Janeiro to Bahia, from Jacques Prévert to Charles Bizet right back to Rodgers and Hart and charming originals. Along with percussionist extraordinaire Keita ...
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Cosmopolitan Jazz with a Literary Accent

Source: Michael Ricci
June 6, 2009

Stacey Kent, fresh from a tour of 27 countries, was in an exultant mood on Thursday evening at Birdland. Her latest album, Breakfast on the Morning Tram (Blue Note/EMI), has enjoyed the kind of commercial success in Europe that Diana Krall’s records achieve in the United States; it also earned her a Grammy nomination for best jazz vocal album. In March she received the National Order of Arts and Letters decoration from the French culture minister.

But more significant, Breakfast, ...
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